Uberto Quotes & Sayings

I look for lessons in every experience. It adds to my leadership abilities. — Omarosa Manigault

I respond to authenticity and originality, and I've been a fan of Don Winslow's ever since 'The Power Of The Dog.' — Chuck Hogan

I didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then. — Darnell Lamont Walker

However many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive. You may throw cells together at random, over and over again for a billion years, and not once will you get a conglomeration that flies or swims or burrows or runs, or does anything, even badly, that could remotely be construed as working to keep itself alive. — Richard Dawkins

The personal is political. When — Gloria Steinem

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. — Edward Bond

The crowd began to murmur, but then a firm voice stilled it. Giovanni Auditore was speaking.'It is you who is the traitor, Uberto. You, one of my closest associates and friends, in whom I entrusted my life! And I am a fool. I did not see that you are one of them!' Here he raised his voice to a great cry of anguish and of rage.'You may take our lives today, but mark this - we will have yours in return!'
-Giovanni Auditore,
Before his execution — Oliver Bowden

Through fetishizing the inequality embedded in the romance story, women have somehow become convinced that being in, or even vying for, a relationship is something we should want
regardless of whether that relationship might hold equal power or doesn't serve us. — Samhita Mukhopadhyay

It was important not to offend against the laws of magic. If a woman left you it was because you did not cast the right spell over her, or else because someone else cast a stronger enchantment than yours, or else because your marriage was cursed in such a way that it cut the ties of love between husband and wife. Why did So-and-so enjoy success in his businesses? Because he visited the right enchanter. There was a thing in the emperor that rebelled against all this flummery, for was it not a kind of infantilization of the self to give up one's power of agency and believe that such power resided outside oneself rather than within? This was also his objection to God, that his existence deprived human beings of the right to form ethical structures by themselves. — Salman Rushdie

Real art has been ... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business. — Vivienne Westwood

Beijing is my favorite city in China. — Andrew Lau